{"id":21156,"date":"2023-12-22T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T20:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2023\/12\/22\/fall-covid-19-surge-continues\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T20:55:47","slug":"fall-covid-19-surge-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/fall-covid-19-surge-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall COVID-19 Surge Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/-\/852599357\/0\/thinkadvisor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2023\/05\/Surgical-Masks-AdobeStock-640x640.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2023\/05\/Surgical-Masks-AdobeStock-640x640.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"first-para\">Early <a href=\"https:\/\/gis.cdc.gov\/grasp\/fluview\/Mortality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death tracking figures<\/a> from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the recent surge in COVID-19 cases is continuing to increase overall U.S. mortality.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19, pneumonia and influenza caused at least 2,093, or 8.6%, of the 24,056 deaths included in the very earliest, incomplete death count data for the week ending Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19&nbsp;alone caused about 3% of the deaths, up from 1% during the week ending July 1, when the disease seemed to be&nbsp;fading away, and up from 2.9% during the week ending Dec. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest reasonably complete death numbers are for the week ending Dec. 2. They show that the United States as a whole reported 51,863 deaths for that. That\u2019s 9.8% lower than the number recorded for the comparable week in 2022 but 8.4% higher than the number recorded for the comparable week in 2019, before COVID-19 came to light.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it means:<\/strong>&nbsp;Any retirement or estate planning forecasters who built significant mortality improvement into 2023 projections may have to recalibrate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The context:<\/strong> The total number of&nbsp;U.S. deaths from all causes for the period running from Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 2, 2023, was 2.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>That was down 5.9% from the total for the comparable period in 2022 but up 8.3% for the comparable period in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>For the four-week period from&nbsp;Nov. 5&nbsp;through Dec. 2, the death count has been 9.6% higher than in the comparable period in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early death tracking figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the recent surge in COVID-19 cases is continuing to increase overall U.S. mortality. COVID-19, pneumonia and influenza caused at&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/fall-covid-19-surge-continues.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}